Questions swirl around state agency in case of missing girl

MIAMI – Records show that the woman who told a Miami judge that her missing toddler is dead was on Florida’s welfare agency’s radar when the girl and her twin brother were born.

The Miami Herald (http://hrld.us/2aHlcV1 ) reports that while the search continues for Angela Dufrene, just-released records from the Department of Children and Families renew questions about the agency’s oversight of at-risk children.

When Angela and her twin brother were born in April 2014, Marjorie Dufrene was under DCF supervision following a child abuse arrest and six separate investigations.

The child’s disappearance was discovered in July after an anonymous tip spurred a DCF investigation. Police believe Angela was last seen in November 2015 and her brother was removed from Dufrene. Her three older children are in Broward County with their father.